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单词 neglectful
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Definition of neglectful in English:

neglectful

adjective nɪˈɡlɛktf(ə)lnəˈɡlɛk(t)fəl
  • Not giving proper care or attention to someone or something.

    you are being neglectful of our guests
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Human sexuality is generally an understudied area of scientific investigation, and researchers have been particularly neglectful of the study of sexuality in the aging population.
    • It is expected that the bishop examine the priest-offender closely to determine whether he has been flagrantly neglectful of his life of prayer and living an unseemly life in areas other than that of the molestation charge.
    • His idea of moral education, while not entirely neglectful of habit, feeling, and physical well-being, is almost a paradigm of a rationalistic approach, with an emphasis on maxims, rules, and above all cultivation of the mind.
    • Yet we can't complain about biomedicine being mechanistic and neglectful of the psychological and social realms, and then go and accuse it of colonising them when it finally expresses an interest.
    • His survey of current attempts at restitution pays little attention to the role of religion therein, an omission that some other scholars would consider neglectful of important facts.
    • But the high comes at a crippling price, altering a user's brain chemistry so that without the drug they can become paranoid, violent and neglectful of their families and their own health.
    • With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
    • He said that over the last 130 years we had been somewhat neglectful of our environment, especially in the recycling of domestic waste and we could not continue with the situation of solely using landfill for this.
    • We have grown neglectful of the benefits of sport and I think we are a Third World nation when it comes down to that area.
    • Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
    • It is well documented that the Dutch colonists were particularly neglectful of the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies for centuries.
    • Then again, I've been pretty neglectful of a few things in the last weeks
    • It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
    • I've been rather neglectful of this blog over the last couple of weeks.
    • From the first settlements up until the Civil War, ordinary Americans were not heavily armed and were generally neglectful of the guns they did own.
    • Rathbone therefore found herself cast in the role of the profligate American, heedless of the future and neglectful of the past.
    • I've been rather neglectful of my day-to-day girlfriends, though.
    • The all-pervasive corruption in the police force and the bureaucracy has made the commoners neglectful of the rule of law.
    • Unhappily, viewed from Moscow, this has issued in a relationship more neglectful of Russian national interests.
    • The proposal has drawn fire from opposition parties and private foundations, who condemned it as neglectful of the welfare of the people.
    Synonyms
    careless, failing to take proper care, remiss, lax, irresponsible, inattentive, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, forgetful
    negligent, remiss, failing to show proper care and attention, lax, careless, irresponsible, indifferent, uncaring, heedless, thoughtless, inattentive, unmindful, forgetful

Derivatives

  • neglectfully

  • adverb nɪˈɡlɛktf(ə)linəˈɡlɛk(t)fəli
    • They were an organisation of high, almost paranoid secrecy - so secret even half of their own operatives had no idea what was going on behind closed doors, or even those left neglectfully ajar.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They neglectfully forget that the ALP was formed by trade unions to help realise the basic and collective aspirations of the working class and fail to see the sizeable insult to these people inherent in this ‘pop’ terminology.
      • From the resulting free-kick, Dunning's cross to the back post somehow eluded a neglectfully unmarked McGurk.
      • He looked through the skies like a maid searching through a sink full of grubby washing for her mistress' car keys which had neglectfully been misplaced; ‘do you believe in all that; UFO's, aliens and the like, Al?’
  • neglectfulness

  • noun
    • Luciano's death, at the end of the film, is shocking because it makes evident that the characters are at the mercy of their own neglectfulness.
 
 

Definition of neglectful in US English:

neglectful

adjectivenəˈɡlek(t)fəlnəˈɡlɛk(t)fəl
  • Not giving proper care or attention to someone or something.

    you are being neglectful of our guests
    born to wealthy but neglectful parents
    Example sentencesExamples
    • With a General Election getting ever closer, it would be neglectful of me not to examine what Yorkshire's farming industry wants from the next Government.
    • It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers.
    • I've been rather neglectful of my day-to-day girlfriends, though.
    • His survey of current attempts at restitution pays little attention to the role of religion therein, an omission that some other scholars would consider neglectful of important facts.
    • His idea of moral education, while not entirely neglectful of habit, feeling, and physical well-being, is almost a paradigm of a rationalistic approach, with an emphasis on maxims, rules, and above all cultivation of the mind.
    • The all-pervasive corruption in the police force and the bureaucracy has made the commoners neglectful of the rule of law.
    • Then again, I've been pretty neglectful of a few things in the last weeks
    • It is expected that the bishop examine the priest-offender closely to determine whether he has been flagrantly neglectful of his life of prayer and living an unseemly life in areas other than that of the molestation charge.
    • He said that over the last 130 years we had been somewhat neglectful of our environment, especially in the recycling of domestic waste and we could not continue with the situation of solely using landfill for this.
    • We have grown neglectful of the benefits of sport and I think we are a Third World nation when it comes down to that area.
    • Yet we can't complain about biomedicine being mechanistic and neglectful of the psychological and social realms, and then go and accuse it of colonising them when it finally expresses an interest.
    • Assume the past resembles the simple patterns and clear verities of myth and the stories we write and call history will be woefully incomplete, hopelessly simplistic, and shamefully neglectful of others who were there.
    • From the first settlements up until the Civil War, ordinary Americans were not heavily armed and were generally neglectful of the guns they did own.
    • Rathbone therefore found herself cast in the role of the profligate American, heedless of the future and neglectful of the past.
    • I've been rather neglectful of this blog over the last couple of weeks.
    • The proposal has drawn fire from opposition parties and private foundations, who condemned it as neglectful of the welfare of the people.
    • But the high comes at a crippling price, altering a user's brain chemistry so that without the drug they can become paranoid, violent and neglectful of their families and their own health.
    • Human sexuality is generally an understudied area of scientific investigation, and researchers have been particularly neglectful of the study of sexuality in the aging population.
    • Unhappily, viewed from Moscow, this has issued in a relationship more neglectful of Russian national interests.
    • It is well documented that the Dutch colonists were particularly neglectful of the indigenous population of the Dutch East Indies for centuries.
    Synonyms
    careless, failing to take proper care, remiss, lax, irresponsible, inattentive, heedless, thoughtless, unmindful, forgetful
    negligent, remiss, failing to show proper care and attention, lax, careless, irresponsible, indifferent, uncaring, heedless, thoughtless, inattentive, unmindful, forgetful
 
 
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